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A vast wallpaper archive.(Cooper-Hewit National Design Museum, New York, NY)(Brief Article)
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London have the largest collections of wallpapers in the world. On April 24, the Cooper-Hewitt is opening an exhibition of eighty wallpapers drawn from its collection, which today comprises some ten thousand examples of panels and fragments made all over the world during the last three hundred years. The lion's share of these comes from England, France, and the United States. The firm Brunschwig et Fils, one of the sponsors of the exhibition, has a partnership with the Cooper-Hewitt to manufacture reproductions of wallpapers from its archives. It has recently added eight papers and three borders to the line of reproductions it has already produced. Each reproduction has been given a pattern name.
Among the new offerings is Clematis Panel, a French or English wallpaper of the Victorian period that can only be produced in twelve-foot-long panels. Gloucester (illustrated at top left) is based on an American block-printed paper of about 1830. Of about the same date is Irise Damask, a block-printed reproduction of an original made in France or the United States. Its name refers to a complex technique in which the back-ground appears ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America April 1, 2005 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Interior Design Lewis, Julia Einspruch March 1, 2000 700+ words
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- New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.(appoints Paul Warwick...
- Magazine article from: Art in America August 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Devine, Michael D. March 15, 2004 700+ words
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- THE STARS COME OUT.(National Design Awards, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network November 3, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Sitting revolutionized.(Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, New...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt October 1, 1999 700+ words
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